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Peter
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Re: Seeking lessons on scatter diagrams
Posted:
Oct 3, 2005 2:24 PM
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I am a teaching assistant in basic university statistics courses. I
help teach engineers, science students and business students. Teaching
them sensible graphing using a ruler(choosing the right intervals etc
and axis) and graphing using a software such as Minitab or SAS is what
we do. We generally teach this with linear regression. This seems to
make a good solid end to scatter plots. Regressions are powerful and
for general use can be affective. They are also too powerful for some
uses as these models can be misused. We try to teach this too about the
validity of a regression model. There are more advanced course in just
regressions.
again I would suggest a basic statistics textbook from university for
this work.
Peter Timusk, B.Math, just trying to stay linear.
Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
>>>> eleonelli@ndecboston.org 09/30/05 10:56AM >>>
> Please respond to the list as I think this would be of interest to
> members
> of this list. Thank you. Esther
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jataylor [mailto:jataylor@utk.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:35 AM
> To: eleonelli@ndecboston.org
> Subject: scatter diagrams
>
> Hello Esther,
> I have a question from a teacher, and I was wondering what you or the
> numeracy listserv might recommend. Here is her question:
>
> "One of the Official GED Practice Tests has two questions that require
> understanding scatter plots. We use both the Steck-Vaugh and
> Contemporary
> series, and neither covers this skill. Does anyone have a source for
> an
> actual lesson on this? I have printed some things off internet sites,
> but
> they are explanations and not work to apply the skill."
>
> Do you have suggestions for classroom activities that might help
> teachers
> help
> learners better understand scatter diagrams?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Jackie
>
>
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